Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.